Instead of creating a document just for printing, you can now create an interactive document with hyperlinks, bookmarks, and buttons for presentations. This chapter from Adobe InDesign CS5 on Demand shows you how.

In the past, desktop publishing was exclusively considered a print-based medium. However, with the introduction and popularity
of the PDF (Portable Document Format) file format and the Adobe Reader as well as the SWF (ShockWave Flash) file format and
the Adobe Flash Player, interactive documents are more popular than ever. Instead of creating a document just for printing,
you can now create an interactive document with hyperlinks, bookmarks, and buttons for presentations. You can even add animation
using motion presets, page transitions, such as a wipe or dissolve, when you turn a page and insert sounds and videos into
an InDesign document in addition to graphics.

With the Hyperlinks panel, you can create hyperlinks that navigate to external URLs, link to files with supplemental information,
launch an e-mail client, or jump to a page or section of a page within the same or even a different document. You can also
verify your hyperlinks directly in InDesign with no need to export the document to a PDF or Flash (SWF) file for testing.

The Buttons panel is a centralized place to work with interactive buttons in InDesign. The Buttons panel makes it easy to
create interactive buttons that perform actions when the document is exported to Flash (SWF file) or Acrobat (PDF). You can
create a custom button from a selected object in an InDesign document or select a button from the built-in Samples button
library. When you create an interactive button, you can add events and actions to enable navigation within a document, launch
a movie, play a sound, or open a Web page.

When you’re finished with your interactive document, you can use the Preview panel to view animation and interactivity for
the current selection, current spread, or the entire document.

Defining Hyperlink Destinations

A hyperlink is a text or graphic object that is linked to other parts of the document, other documents, or Web pages. A hyperlink consists
of a source and a destination. The source is the text or graphic object that you click to jump to the hyperlink location while the destination is the place that InDesign sends you to. The destination can be in the same document, another document, an e-mail message,
or a Web page on the Internet. You need to define a destination before you can define the source.

Create a Hyperlink Destination

Select the Hyperlinks panel.

Click the Window menu, point to Interactive, and then click Hyperlinks.